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Courts & crime, 1921

7,036 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 250

In Full Swing Profiteering Prevention Court Business Firms Cited

Evening News · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 7

Judge Beeby heard the first prosecurious under section 14 of the Profiteering Prevention Act to-day. the Cambridge D[?] Limited of…

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Sheep's Tongues Alleged Undue Profit Cases in Profiteering Court

The Sun · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 7

Combridge Delicacies, Ltd., was today proceeded against under section 14 of the Profiteering Prevention Act, before Judge Booby, the President, on a…

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Industrial Court. (Before Judges Rolin and Curlewis.) Living Wage Increases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 10

Applications were made to the Court on behalf of a large number of unions throughout the State for variations of their awards to embody wage increases consequent upon…

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Care of Animals. Work of S.p.c.a. Selling of Police Horses

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 10

"There is nothing to my mind more base than to cruelly treat animals, who cannot answer, who cannot resent, who cannot avenge, who cannot escape, and who,…

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Bombala on Rocks Claim in High Court by Crew of Dilkera

The Sun · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 7

An action was brought in the High Court of Australia to-day, before the Chief Justice (Sir Adrian Knox), when the crew of the steamer Dilkera…

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Supreme Court. in Bankruptcy. (Before the Registrar.) Hearing of Creditohs' Petitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 10

Re Khamat Khan, ex parte Daher Aboud. Messrs. McDonell and Moffitt for the petition ing creditor. Order made. Mr. C. F. W. Lloyd official assignee…

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Law Report. High Court. (Before Sir Adrian Knox, C.j.) Alteration of the Sittings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 10

The sittings of the High Court of Australia in its original jurisdiction were commenced before the Chiof Justice at Darlinghurst yesterday. Two matters were listed for…

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Sentenced for Stealing

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 1

Ethel Violet May Benn, a young woman who pleaded guilty to five charges of breaking and entering and stealing was sentenced by Judge Backhouse at the…

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Redfern Tragedy Shearer Charged with Murder

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 5

Richard Lamkin, 27, shearer, appeared before Mr. Hawkins at the Central police Court to-day charged with having feloniously and maliciously murdered…

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Stealing Drapery a Parramatta Case

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 2

At the Parramatta Police Court yesterday Stanley Leonard was lined £10. having pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing sundry articles of clothing…

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Charge of Murder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

George Gunter, 53, a homeopathist, and Royal Vivian Thomas Berg, 27, a baker, were charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with having murdered Elsie Nina Berg. The accused were arrested by…

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100 CONVICTIONS Beggar Sent to Gaol

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 7

William Jones, [?] pleaded guilty at the Glebe Police Court to placing himself in Parramatta-road Annandale for the pupose of begging…

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Murder Charge Lamkin Remanded

The Sun · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 3

Richard Lamkin, aged 27. a shearer, who was [?]rrested and charged with having murdered Norman Kable, at Redfern, on January 30 last year, was…

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Theft From a Railway Truck. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 9

Judge Armstrong, presiding at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions, to-day, sentenced Leonard Hughes aged 30, a railway-cleaner, to one year's imprisonment for the theft of softgoods…

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Eastbourne Murder. London, Feb. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 9

The Home Secretary has decided not to advise the reprieve of Jack Alfred Field and William Thomas Gray, who are under sentence of death for the murder of Irene Munro,…

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Murder Charge. Death of Chinese

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 9

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.--A young man, Charles Poole, who was arrested by Plainclothes Constable M'Car[?]y on Monday, was this morning charged with the murder of Mo…

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Supreme Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 6

Prothonotary's Office.—Before the Deputy Prothonotary. —Hughes v Hughes, at 10 a.m.; Hill v Hill, at 10 a.m.; Fewings v Fewings, at 1.15 a.m.; Stokes v Stokes, at 10.15 a.m.; Hall v byrne, at 10.30 a.m.;…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 6

Before his Honor Judge Scholes, in No. 1 Court.—At 10 a.m.: Levenson v Pyke, Leibius and others v Martin, Weston v Rose Bay Mtor Garage, Ltd., Chandler v Mears, Munnery v Adamson, Henley v…

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Cowardly Assault Fighting Mayor to Rescue Two Men Imprisoned

Evening News · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 6

Two Parramatta lads looking for a handy place in a dark street from which to waylay two visitors to the town on Saturday night were most unlucky to…

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